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That is a saying that holds true for the online operations for any industry, whether it is a blog or a social media platform. What makes a blog different is that a 140-character sentence or a single picture doesn’t cut it as a post. Since most blogs are focused a particular niche, industry or hobby, it limits the amounts of things a blogger can write about. I doubt I have to say it, but a marketing blog posting a review on “Despicable Me 2” would raise some eyebrows and probably open the exit door for some of the blog’s followers.

Readers also like regularly posted material, which is where the problems arise. Some bloggers post every other week, while others post every other day. No matter how often you post, you eventually will sit down at your desk and find no “great ideas” in your…

I took this photo of the first ripe tomato from my garden using my new phone camera with the “cartoonify” effect. It makes it look like an illustration instead of a photo. (Nevertheless, it still looks delicious, doesn’t it?) I love my new phone. Its my first smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy Note II. And it really is smart. It lets me dictate text, and it gets it right most of the time, and when I use the keyboard, it even knows what words I want to type and presents them for me to choose,

My last post was almost exactly a year ago. It started out with the statement About how I was going to start tending to my blog again. That turned out well, didn’t it? It’s not that I have not had anything to say all year. It’s just that I have not had a convenient way to say it. You see, I’m always thinking about things — while I’m driving, washing the dishes, feeding the dogs, whatever — my thoughts could be brilliant blog posts. But if I’m not in front of a computer, well, they just aren’t going to be recorded.

It’s a new year and I’ve decided to go back to tending my blog after a very long hiatus. I was telling someone at work about it and told him he could just google the phrase “everyone is entitled to my opinion” — then I decided to google it myself to make sure it came up in the search results. Well, it did, and on the first page too, but not at the top. It looks like there are several other bloggers out there sharing the title, “Everyone is Entitled to My Opinion.” So I guess everyone is entitled to my opinion and my title. What’s more, I am not the only Lindarella on the internet. Google it and you’ll see. Apparently everyone is entitled to my name too! I’m not greedy, but I’ve got to draw a line somewhere. Therefore, I am declaring my dog’s name off limits. At the moment, there is only ONE “Candy Mona Lisa La Puppaluppas” in the entire universe. Google it and you’ll see — cute videos. So to all of you dog owners (or cat, or lizard, or squirrel, whatever) out there, don’t even think about borrowing that name for your pet, or I’ll sic a pack of Dobermans on your butt!

I was going through the contents of my spam comments (those that were automatically filtered) in order to see if there were any comments that were not spam, when I found the following lengthy, but hilarious message:

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“However, the deed of addiction to drugs and alcohol can conclusion in some appealing undesirable consequences, such as loss of friendships, health problems, behavioral problems, alienation of family, and a loss of care in sports, academics, hobbies, etc. Substance abuse and addiction can emphatically modify behavior, and a latest preoccupation with drugs can assemblage absent activities that were formerly important, adore sports or academics.

“End this is a discreet and non-invasive way. Always enshrine that teenagers can be fully protective of their privacy. Instead of asking your babe about his or her friends, launch a barbeque organization and interrogate your baby to invite some of his or her friends.

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Okay, that’s it. NOW — you might be asking why did I reproduce this crap in my own blog entry in the first place. Well, I did change the two links that would have taken you to the spammer’s site — I replaced the drug name with a description of the drug in the link in the fourth paragraph, and I replaced the text in the URL above with another descriptive, but bogus address. I certainly wasn’t going to send any business their way. But the rest of the comment is unretouched. Continue reading →

Are you wondering why I haven’t posted in so long? Well, for one thing, I got busy when I went back to work. No, it wasn’t writer’s block. In fact, I’ve had quite a bit to say about many things, but no time to write. Then there were technical problems. Many times, I couldn’t even log in — I don’t know why. Last week, I asked to reset my password. Then I was able to log in, but there was no dashboard. I did some research and apparently, others have had the same problem. I was thinking about installing another browser (I use IE 7), but then I just got aggravated and decided against it. I had been getting emails letting me know I have comments to moderate, and tonight I decided to try once more. Presto! My dashboard is back. And so am I. At least for now.

I’ve made a list of topics to write about. These topics come from two categories: observations about life in general (my life, of course) and observations about television. Here are some examples from my list:

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